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Many congratulations to Diarmid Xu, a PhD student in Professor Gopal Madabhushi’s group, for winning the Cooling Prize competition for his work on the scour protection of offshore foundation for wind farms subjected to seismic liquefaction. The competition is held annually by the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) and is awarded to a geotechnic…

Professor Stuart Haigh has given the Géotechnique Lecture 2021 on a topic of ‘Performance-Based Design of Propped Retaining Walls’ at Institution of Civil Engineers on 16th November 2021. The Géotechnique lecture is a biennial top lecture in geotechnical engineering, nominated by the editorial panel of the top journal Géotechnique.As geotechnical d…

Philip Turner was an outstanding mechanical engineer, who designed a wide range of innovative devices. He made major formative contributions to the design of geotechnical centrifuges for the Schofield Centre. He was a design engineer in the Department of Engineering for many years and when he died he bequeathed in his will a prize to be awarded ann…

A very warm welcome was given to our new post-graduate research students, fourth year students and visitors joining the Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group in Division D at a reception on 8 October 2021.

The Geotechnical and Environmental Group workshop took place on Monday, 28 June 2021. This annual event is generously sponsored by Atkins and brings together the whole Group for a day of presentations by first year PhD students and posters by second year PhD students. The top three MEng geotechnical projects from Division D were also presented by t…

Congratulations to Briony Whitfield, Chris Hamilton and Amelie Loubens for winning best presentation in their session at the annual Cambridge Civils Event, which took place on Wednesday 9 June.

Samy Garcia Torres of Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Group, who has recently completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof Gopal Madabhushi, has been awarded The Best Presentation Prize at the 1st International Symposium on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies CREST 2020.Samy presented her paper titled “Performa…

Alumna Dr. Barnali Ghosh, Technical Director at Mott MacDonald has been named a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Visiting Professor at the Department of Engineering. She is a chartered civil engineer with specialisation in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering through her PhD at the University of Cambridge.The RAEng industry-into-academia initiat…

The Geotechnical and Environmental Group workshop took place on Monday, 29 June 2020. This annual event is generously sponsored by Atkins and brings together the whole Group for a day of presentations by first year PhD students and posters by second year PhD students. The top four MEng geotechnical projects from Division D were also presented by th…

Philip Turner was an outstanding mechanical engineer, who designed a wide range of innovative devices. He made major formative contributions to the design of geotechnical centrifuges for the Schofield Centre. He was a design engineer in the Department of Engineering for many years and when he died he bequeathed in his will a prize to be awarded ann…

A very warm welcome was given to our new post graduate research students, fourth year students and visitors joining the Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group in Division D at a reception on 11 October 2019.

Deryck Chan was named East of England and Midlands regional winner of the Pitch 200 competition, an annual competition organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers, where contestants explain a civil engineering innovation within 200 seconds. In Deryck's winning video, 'Pushing the boundaries of civil engineering with a big centrifuge', he explai…

The Geotechnical and Environmental Group workshop took place on Monday, 24 June 2019. This annual event is generously sponsored by Atkins and brings together the whole Group for a day of presentations by first year PhD students and posters by second year PhD students. The top three MEng projects from Division D were presented by the students.Congra…

Congratulations to Micheala Chan, Jin Zheng and Ewan Taylor for winning best presentation in their session at the annual Cambridge Civils Event, which took place on Wednesday 5 June at Emmanuel College.

The Civil Engineering Division at the Department of Engineering has been successful in its bid for a Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Resilience in a Changing World.This expands and builds on the strength of the current Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment (FIBE CDT)…